This will be a resumption of a project I had started some time ago, but got put on the shelf as other projects side-tracked me.
I've had a fascination with the Avro Atlantic ever since I found out that Avro had proposed an airliner/transport/tanker version of the Vulcan bomber. While researching it I came across a web page that was associated with the Neville Shute Society that had some information on the Atlantic. Apparently in one of Neville Shute' books called 'In the Wet', there is a description of an airliner which matches the Atlantic to a tee, so I wrote to the society asking if they had any more information. I got a reply from a fellow who's name was Mike Meehan, he told me the Atlantic was a pet project of his because back in the day he worked in the Avro drafting office and had actually worked on drawings that appeared in the Avro Atlantic brochure to the Air Ministry (or what ever the department was called back then). So 99% of my information I have gather on the Atlantic came from Mike. Unfortunately, Mike has since died but before he did he told me he was then heavily involved with the Neville Shute Society.
In the original books of 'In the Wet', there appeared a sketch of the airliner in question only it's called a De Havilland Ceres in the story, below is a copy of the sketch which Mike had sent to me but it can be found on the internet. My original story for my Atlantic was it was built in Canada and went into RCAF service instead of the 707 and so was designated the CC-137 Husky, but now the problem arose on how to link this to the book and this GB.
So I really needed to know more about the book and did a google search to find a review, and actually found quite a comprehensive one. To my amazement, I found there's a Canadian (and Australian) connection in the book because the story unwinds around a character who was a test pilot flying advanced airliners produced by these two countries. So I have an 'in' so to speak. I have since bought a copy of the book and now reading it more thoroughly so I can work on my backstory.